Lee Cusenbary is the General Counsel at Mission Pharmacal Company in San Antonio. He is also the creator of Ethics Follies®, a musical parody that uses comedy to raise ethics issues. The fully-produced Broadway-style musical combines San Antonio's business leaders and professional actors to engage the community. It is featured each year by The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) for their ethics conference which benefits The Community Justice Program. Lee is also a frequent writer and speaker on why "good ethics is good for business," and is a recipient of the San Antonio Business Ethics Award. In 2012, ACC renamed their ethics awards the "Lee Cusenbary Ethical Life Award" in recognition of his commitment to ethics in law and business. Learn more about how you can be part of a more ethical culture at EthicsFollies.com.

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In 2009, I wrote an Ethics Follies script about the mortgage loan crisis in 2009. The issue that caught my attention was how much the Great Depression in the late 1920′s and 1930′s resembled the Great Recession we were going through at the time (and can still feel today). To make it have more historical […]
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“This was an intentional, systematic marketing policy by the company, this was not the product of some rogue sales representatives who in some field office on their own went and engaged in off-label marketing,” Timothy Heaphy, U.S. Attorney for western Virginia, told reporters.
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…A senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an email from a former executive at Wal-Mart de Mexico (WALMEXV.MX) in September 2005 that described how the Mexican affiliate, known as Walmex, had paid bribes to obtain permits to build stores in Mexico.
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The story about the CEO who hired back all the laid-off workers before the company was sold sounds really positive. The story below uses this as a counterbalance to the stories of excessive CEO compensation, Ponzi schemes and greedy management. However, the story also helps reveal how lack of understanding of business by most people […]
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One of the most important issues raised in the Ethics Follies musiical “Cloud 9″ was what expectation of privacy consumers should have when using Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has said many times, in his humble way, “privacy is dead.” Don’t tell our Founding Fathers… As Congress and the FTC struggle to protect people’s identities from automatic […]
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I promise I’m not beating up Johnson & Johnson on purpose. However, I admit that I have posted about five stories in the past few years on the corporation’s legal difficulties which appears to be from an inability to find a moral compass . It’s just hard to ignore some of the allegations against the […]
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When I got a letter saying I was selected to receive a San Antonio Ethics in Business Award in 2012, I was excited and flattered. The years of work on Ethics Follies® scripts, direction, producing, performing and touring had not gone unnoticed! But the award is actually for The Association of Corporate Counsel chapter here […]
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